THE DIVINA COMMEDIA AND CANZONIERE IN FIVE VOLUMES : Translated by the late E.H. Plumptre D.D. with Notes, Studies and Estimates ( A Complete 5 Volume Set: Dante's Divine Comedy Hell; Purgatory; Paradise; Minor Poems; Studies and Estimates

A Complete Set of Five Volumes: Vol I. Hell; Vol. II. Purgatory; Vol. III. Paradise; Vol IV.Canzoniere/Minor Poems; Vol. V. Studies and Estimates ( a very interesting volume by Dean Plumptre. ) Attractively bound in Period Burgundy Red soft calf Full-Leather, having Gilt Portrait of Dante on fronts and Gilt Lettering and Decoration on spines. 6 1/2" Tall. Top page edges Gilt. Each volume has a frontis illus. including: Paolo and Francesca, The Rose of Heaven and 2 Portraits of Dante. Dante's Text has copious explanatory footnotes beneath which makes this a useful and interesting edition. Some wear at spine ends with a very small bit of leather missing from top of spine on the Purgatory volume. Prize inscription on fly leaf of Vol. I and on ffep of Vol IV. No other inscriptions. Set weighs about 2 kilos packed so shipping outside UK may be extra.